Disclaimer: Don't own any of it, if I did this really would be happening!!!

AN: This is a sequel to Just Might Make Me Believe. This story picks up five to six months after the last one ended. Ok now remember from the previous story, Christina and Burke got married and the interns are now residents. And in this story Derek's dad never died, I'm not really sure if it's ever been said in the show if he did or not, so when you see his mom refer to her husband it's Derek's dad. Please read, review and enjoy!!

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Love makes the heart happy, it makes you, as a person, want to be happy. It permeates through your mind and fills you with thoughts of that one person who can truly make you weak in the knees. Love is a feeling that overtakes the body inch by inch until it is satisfied with its work, good or bad. It's one of the most complex sensations that a human being can experience; it is full of emotions that are twisted with all these desires, which are then contorted with reverence and admiration. True love is one of the most remarkable feelings. No one knows when or how hard they will fall, because the day you fall in love is a day you never want to forget. No one truly knows what love is until they have fallen.

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Four years ago their lives changed for the better. Four years ago they realized that the words 'true love' actually did exist. Four years ago they walked into a bar not expecting to meet the person of their dreams, the person they were meant to spend the rest of their lives with. And now, here they stood, in the same exact place in which they had first laid eyes on each other. So much had happened in this bar…

"So what's your story?"

"I don't have a story; I'm just a girl in a bar."

"I'm just a guy in a bar."

That had been the conversation that had started their whirlwind romance; a romance that neither one had planned on; a romance that blossomed into not just a one night stand, but a lifetime.

"Hi, I'm Derek Shepherd."

"What are you doing?"

"We met at this bar, remember? We met and we, um, you said I'm just a girl, and I said I'm just a guy, and we started this thing. We started this thing. You didn't know anything about me, the good, the bad, the wife. You didn't even know my name. You didn't know me. I want you to know me. I want to start over from the beginning. So, hi, I'm Derek Shepherd."

"You walked away, and now it's too late. There's too much water under the thing, or whatever."

"Meredith... Please."

"Hi, I'm Meredith Grey." She hesitated.

"Very nice to meet you Meredith."

"Nice to meet you too."

That was the conversation that rekindled their romance. At first she had been unsure of what to do, he had been the one that wanted space and time to think, and there he was, begging her for a fresh start.

"Seriously…" she asked in shock.

"Meredith, we met in this very spot four years ago and I fell in love with you the moment I laid eyes on you. You are the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with, have kids with and grow old with. Mer, you are the love of my life. Will you marry me?"

"Seriously…"

"Seriously."

"Oh my god, Derek…yes!"

"Yes?"

"Yes of course I'll marry you."

And that was the conversation that brought them to where they stood today. They were getting married, in less than twenty four hours they would be Mr. and Mrs. Derek Shepherd. Everything they had ever dreamed of was unfolding right in front of their eyes. They had completed their dream house six months ago, had successfully planned an extravagant wedding, had talked about having two or three kids and had all sorts of plans for their future.

"This is it…" he said tilting his head to look deep into her eyes. That was the look, the look that always made her go weak in the knees, the look that proved to her that this was in fact forever.

"This is it." she replied smiling back at him before taking a sip of her drink.

"You guys nervous?" Joe asked as he walked up to them wiping off the bar.

They both looked at him and turned their heads to look at each other, giving one another a reassuring smile and replying a simple, "No" simultaneously. Joe smiled to himself, he had seen a lot of people get together in his bar, but he had never in his entire life seen two people more in love.

"Look I'm sure you are already sick of the speeches and the toasts and you only have more coming tomorrow night, but you guys are meant to be together. I've never seen so much love radiate between two people. You're the real thing, the thing that people wish for their entire lives. And I could say I wish you happiness, but I don't have to because you have already found that. You two will have a great life together."

"Thanks Joe." Derek smiled at him and returned his gaze to Meredith. "And thanks for everything you are doing for us tomorrow. We didn't expect you to do that."

"Yeah well every wedding, especially yours, needs an open bar. I'm just afraid that with the friends you two have I'll run out of alcohol in the first thirty minutes," he chuckled, "but it's worth it, you two are like family to me." He said walking away.

"So, what are you going to do your last night as a bachelorette?" Derek asked raising an eyebrow.

"God only knows, I can't imagine. Christina and Izzie have been at the house for…an hour now."

"You let them into our house by themselves; I hope we still have a house."

"Shut up," she said slapping him on the arm, "they're probably just hiding the stripper or something."

"Excuse me…" Derek said almost spitting out his beer.

"Haha…gotcha." She winked at him.

"Uh, you are in so much trouble." He quickly leaned over and started tickling her sides causing her to go into heaps of laughter. He stopped tickling her and just held her in his arms for a while.

"I love you."

"I love you too.

They sat and talked for a little while about the ceremony and their honeymoon. Then they decided to go their separate ways. They told Joe goodnight and walked hand in hand outside to their cars. Meredith was heading back to their house and Derek was heading to Mark's apartment.

"I will see you tomorrow night." She whispered, leaning into him and placing a feather kiss on his nose.

"I don't know if I can go without you for that long."

"It will be worth the wait though…" she said giving him a seductive smile.

"Why Miss Grey are you trying to turn me on?"

She wrapped her arms around his neck pulling him into a deep, passionate kiss. Their mouths collided and he opened his allowing her tongue access, causing a moan to come somewhere from deep inside of him. As they started to pull apart she took his lower lip and sucked on it for a second before breathlessly pulling away.

"No, I'm just giving you a glimpse of tomorrow night." She winked at him.

"Hmm yeah…alright well uh…I'm going to go because the sooner I go the sooner I see you tomorrow. I love you and I cannot wait until you come walking down that aisle."

"I love you too."

He opened the car door for her and kissed her one last time before watching her drive off. Only a few more hours and all of their dreams would be coming true.

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"Hello…anyone home?" Meredith said entering her house.

"In the kitchen…"

The kitchen was one of Meredith's favorite rooms of the new house. It had black hardwood floors, white cabinets and dark red walls. There was a big island in the middle of the room where the stove was located and lots and lots of counter space around it. She walked into a room full of women. Christina, Callie, Nancy and Kathleen, two of Derek's sisters, were sitting around the island drinking wine and talking. Lacy and Madeline, Derek's other two sisters, were at the kitchen table talking to Izzie about what sounded to be like the wedding. Trish, Meredith's future mother-in-law was talking to Lexie next to the fireplace. Derek's family had made Meredith feel so welcome, after her meeting with Nancy two years ago she hadn't been sure what to expect. But to her amazement she was immediately accepted into the family.

"Wow it's a good thing we have six bedrooms and a guest house." Meredith joked as she walked into the kitchen.

Christina got up and handed Meredith a glass of wine, "Mcfamily is so much better than Burke's, I hate you."

"You like them?"

"Yea, I love them. I would kill for in-laws like these!"

"Yea, I'm quite the lucky girl."

After a few more hours of talking and telling embarrassing stories of everyone's internships and residencies, they decided to head to bed. Derek's sisters were staying in the guest house which had four bedrooms and was located right next to the house. Everybody else had their own bedroom in the main house.

After tossing and turning in bed for nearly an hour Meredith didn't know what to do to fall asleep. She had taken a hot lavender bubble bath, which always relaxed her. She had put on Derek's sweatpants and her Dartmouth t-shirt and curled up with his pillow, none of it was helping.

'Damn it, I can't sleep without him.'

She got out of bed put her slippers on and went downstairs to see if some tea would help put her to sleep.

She walked into the kitchen to find Derek's mom there already making some tea.

"Trish, what are you doing up?"

"Oh, I'm sorry dear I didn't mean to go through your stuff. I just couldn't sleep."

"Don't worry about going through stuff, I'm just glad you could find it, I can never find anything in this kitchen. Seems like we have the same problem, I can't sleep either."

"Nervous?"

"Oh no not at all, it's just…I can't sleep without Derek. I know that is so pathetic right, but I don't know I just…I can't."

"It's not pathetic at all. Secret between us, that's why I can't sleep either…I haven't slept without my husband in nearly thirty-five years, you feel empty, I understand."

After a few minutes of silence, Derek's mom finally spoke.

"Thank you." She said to Meredith giving her a big smile.

"I'm sorry?" Meredith asked a little confused.

"Thank you…for bringing my son back to us." After seeing Meredith's confused look she continued, "You let him be the man that he is. I've never seen him this happy, never. He loves you. He loves you like he's never loved anyone before."

"This is all so surreal, you know…I feel like any minute I am going to wake up and all of this is going to be gone; this house, this day, our perfect wedding, our love. It's all part of the dream I never thought would actually come true. And it scares me…you know, it's just…I've lost him before, I don't want to wake up to find that I never really had him. And I am not having second thoughts…I would never have second thoughts, not with Derek. I love him so much; I can't imagine my life with anyone else."

"Oh Meredith, this is all real, every single last bit of it, this house, the unforgettable moments you will share together tomorrow, the children you will have, the life you will experience together, and nothing is more real than the love you share. And I promise you that if you ever wake up and find he's not there I will personally kick his ass for you." Meredith giggled. "But you have nothing to worry about, you are his world and the love between you two is so incredibly strong. You have the kind of love that nothing comes between; you have the kind of love that people long for, the kind of love that rarely exists today."

Meredith smiled at the woman that sat in front of her. She knew that Trish was right, they had a love that was incredibly strong, they had made it through a hell of a lot over the last four years and there were defiantly going to be hard times in the future, but they would be able to make it through anything, she had no doubt. They sat in silence taking in each other's thoughts, and then exhaustion began to set in.

"I think we need to head to bed, you have a big day tomorrow and I hear we have to be up early to set up your perfect day."

"Hmm, yea…guess I need to get my beauty sleep, wouldn't want to disappoint anyone tomorrow night."

"Oh, honey you could never disappoint anyone and you will be absolutely gorgeous tomorrow. Let's go to bed." Trish grabbed Meredith's hand and walked her upstairs and tucked her in to bed.

"You go to bed so you can wake up to live your dream. Come get me if you need anything, goodnight." Trish leaned over and kissed Meredith on the forehead and left the room closing the door behind her.

Meredith smiled and grabbed Derek's pillow to curl up with and quickly fell asleep. This was the last night she would be going to bed as Meredith Grey and nothing made her happier. She loved being a Grey, she had been one for twenty eight years, but the thought of being a Shepherd made her even happier. In eight hours she would be waking up to live happily ever after.

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AN: So I hope you guys like this so far, sorry it was really lame I know. I toyed with the ideas of a bachelorette party or just jumping right into the wedding, but I really like the opening scene with Derek and Meredith at the bar. I am not sure when I will be able to post next I will try my hardest to do it soon, I have a fabulous idea for the wedding.

As far as tonight's episode, I thought it was really really good!! I know we didn't get a whole lot of MerDer but what we did get I was really happy with, I kind of wish we had gotten to hear the stories from Mer's past. And the whole Izzie/Denny thing is a little weird to me.